The Green Revolution: One of the most ecologically devastating technologies of modern times

The story of the Green Revolution began when, in 1943, the Rockefeller Foundation dispatched a team of agricultural experts to Mexico to set up a research program on local grains. Soon to head the research was  agricultural scientist Norman Borlaug, the so called father of the “green revolution”.(1) His research program soon paid off with [...]

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